Example sentences of "but a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the term ‘ dialectic ’ means that the process of movement which characterizes human history is not a smooth development but a development caused by conflicts and contradictions which lead to temporary resolutions , like two people arguing with each other . |
| 2 | But a head does not manage governors or parents in the same sense . |
| 3 | There were magistrates who appear to have relished ordering corporal punishment , but a minority thought it inappropriate and seldom included flogging as part of a sentence . |
| 4 | But a proposal to create jobs ( in chemical or cigarette factories ) causes us to shrug our shoulders and assent . |
| 5 | But a proposal to re-draw the tax-boundary line between them would win little favour in the rich suburbs . |
| 6 | A contract to supply ‘ staves ’ is one thing but a contract to supply ‘ staves , half an inch thick ’ is altogether more onerous . |
| 7 | What annoys him is people who say Moliere is not funny : ‘ I do n't read reviews although I understand we have done extremely well , but a couple thought it has to be very serious . |
| 8 | I never did lose any at all , but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay . |
| 9 | She said her husband had made regular visits to the field , but a vet believed some of the dead sheep had been there for at least two weeks . |
| 10 | But a state does act that way when it accepts a Solomonic checkerboard solution ; it is inconsistency in principle among the acts of the state personified that integrity condemns . |
| 11 | A corporation can not be made bankrupt ; but a company formed under the Companies Act 1985 or similar earlier Acts can be wound up , and its property distributed , according to rules similar to those applicable to bankruptcy . |
| 12 | Not simply Hugh , Prior Robert , and the two emissaries from Ramsey with their lay servant , who indeed seemed to be missing , but a company augmented by the addition of two attendant grooms or squires , whatever their exact status might be , and a compact personage in his prime , who rode unobtrusively at Hugh 's side , behind the two priors , and yet dominated the procession without any effort or gesture on his part . |
| 13 | But a drum starts , muffled . |
| 14 | Most of the pot is still covered with fine lines , but a zone left for decoration with animals or flowers — forms drawn in outline . |
| 15 | And the er she was running down the hill on but a lorry found them in Vale Park ! |
| 16 | He says " I am but a signpost pointing the way " . |
| 17 | It was not too deep or strong for horses but a tree had been felled across it for foot-passengers . |
| 18 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ but a girl do n't buy a new outfit in five minutes . |
| 19 | In the distant past , when the genetic material was being accumulated that makes mankind what it is , nobody but a warlord lived in a dwelling he could not make himself . |
| 20 | The big cat started to swing on to the other tack but a swell caught her bow , slamming her back . |
| 21 | We take as the basic model not a single game , but a system consisting of a linked set of subjective games , one for each player . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a system not to guard against intruders , but a system to ensure that somebody does n't get out . |
| 23 | There was no step up to higher things , but a system complete in itself under which poor children were to receive just that modicum of education which would enable them to become useful and content in their inevitable station as hewers of wood and drawers of water . |
| 24 | Buzz recalled Elinor 's swift rage and felt another glimmer of hope , but a thought occurred to her : If they insisted on treating Nell like a crazy person , she might actually end up like one . |
| 25 | The cession of the south was not so much payment for help already given , but a concession designed to ensure future support and give Edward III a vested interest in the endurance of Balliol 's rule . |
| 26 | Re-immersion in the Ministry followed this prolonged servility , but a breakthrough came with the Fifties publication of An Asiatic Romance , a satirical fantasy explosively pointing up bureaucracy 's absurdity and irrelevance in a world reduced to violence and cannibalism . |
| 27 | In western movies they all seem to be chewing tobacco or smoking brown cheroots but a cigar sits well in Elliot 's lips . |
| 28 | But a childhood gaining a reputation as an impulsive scatterbrain should n't preclude her from the same opportunities and privileges her brother received , should it ? |
| 29 | Afternoon was a relatively safe time , but a peak occurred in late evening ( 1900–2100 hours ) when patients go to the toilet or commode and get into bed . |
| 30 | She hoped to tell Sarah about the caelidhe on Monday , but a message came that she was too ill for work . |